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(The Sports Xchange) – – – – -Kevin Durant scored 33 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in leading Oklahoma City to a convincing 117-86 points  victory over the Houston Rockets.

(Reuters) – San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker apologized yesterday after a three-year-old photo surfaced of him making the same anti-Semitic gesture that has landed former France striker Nicolas Anelka in trouble.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia are expected to keep the successful attack that has carried them to a 4-0 Ashes lead for the final test against England in Sydney, bowling coach Craig McDermott said yesterday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – England team director Andy Flower has backed Alastair Cook’s captaincy and will have talks with his new boss in Sydney this week about his own future in the wake of the tourists’ fourth straight loss in the Ashes series.

(Reuters) – Maria Sharapova returned after four months out injured with a completely dominant 6-3 6-0 victory over France’s Caroline Garcia in the opening round of the Brisbane International yesterday.

DURBAN, (Reuters) – Captain Graeme Smith scored the winning runs as South Africa knocked off a modest 58-run target to beat India by 10 wickets in the second test at Kingsmead and win the two-match series 1-0 yesterday.

DURBAN, (Reuters) – Jacques Kallis said he knew the time was right to quit the test arena as he bowed out after an 18-year career with victory over India at Kingsmead yesterday.

DURBAN, (Reuters) – Captain Graeme Smith scored the winning runs as South Africa knocked off a modest 58-run target to beat India by 10 wickets in the second test at Kingsmead and win the two-match series 1-0.

Manager of the National cricket team Alvin Johnson yesterday urged the players involved in the ongoing training sessions to continue working hard on their fitness and move from strength to strength in time for next month’s Regional tournament.

After three weeks and 20 games involving the 24 teams in the inaugural Chico/Kashif and Shanghai Elite Next Generation Tournament it’s now down to the final four.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyanese off-spinning all-rounder Steven Jacobs is tipped to lead the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) in the 2014 NAGICO Super50 Regional Tournament, according to media reports.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, CMC – Jamaican Olympic and World champion Usain Bolt and American tennis star Serena Williams have been voted International Sports Press Association (AIPS) Best Athletes for the second year in a row.

(Reuters) – Roger Federer and Serena Williams had contrasting 2013 seasons but both kick off their new campaigns at the Brisbane International this week showing no signs just yet of calling time on their illustrious careers.

(BBC) Michael Schumacher, seven-time Formula 1 world champion, is in a critical condition after a skiing accident, says the French hospital treating him.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former Trinidad and Tobago youth footballer Akeem Adams has reportedly slipped into a coma on Saturday in Hungary following a stroke, according to Wired868, an online sports journal.

(Reuters) – The Cleveland Cavaliers have suspended center Andrew Bynum indefinitely “for conduct detrimental to the team”, said the National Basketball Association club.

NAPIER, New Zealand, CMC – The second One Day International (ODI) between West Indies and New Zealand has been abandoned due to a wet outfield.

(The Sports Xchange) – Forward Chris Bosh’s three-pointer with 0.5 of a second remaining lifted the Miami Heat to  a 108-107 points victory over the Portland Trail Blazers at the Moda Center.

DURBAN, (Reuters) – Jacques Kallis marked the end of his test career with an emotive farewell century yesterday to give South Africa a chance of victory over India going into the last day of their two-match series.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Chris Rogers struck a sparkling century to fire Australia to a dominant eight-wicket win in the fourth Ashes test yesterday, leaving an insipid England staring down the barrel of a humiliating series whitewash.